The autonomous driving news is really stacking up. Uber and Tesla have both been very active on the self-driving scene recently. There’s so much news that it’s time for a summary of four recent, major events:
1. Uber lays off 100 backup drivers from its self-driving unit
Uber laid off 100 backup drivers from its self-driving unit. … Read More → "Maybe You Can’t Drive My Car (Yet) Part 4"
“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” – Mark Twain
Chemistry is just applied physics… or so a physicist would tell you. And autonomous vehicles are just a collection of applied sensors – if you’re a sensor manufacturer. Read More → "Cepton LiDAR Goes Anti-MEMS Route"
How do you build a self-driving car? OK, wait, that’s too loose a question. How do you build a safe self-driving car?
A part of the answer involves what some see as the miracle answer to every problem we have now: AI.
“Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.” — Aristotle
It seemed like such a good idea at the time.
Car keys are going the way of the dinosaur. But, like dinosaurs, keys evolved over generations until they were perfectly adapted for their time, and it took an unearthly cataclysm to knock them off the top … Read More → "When Your Own Technology Poisons You"
There are whispers that their time has come to fade away into the sunset. Time to drift away on the electronic wind with laser discs, Zune players, and VHS. But can the role of 8 bit MCUs in the electronic engineering ecosystem be dismissed so easily? Maybe not. In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, Nikos Zervas (CEO … Read More → "Long Live the (8 Bit) King"
“We must understand what infrastructure is needed to support 1 billion parcels a day.” – Jack Ma, Alibaba Executive Chairman
Late in May, Alibaba Group’s Cainiao Network and RoboSense jointly announced G Plus, the world’s first unmanned logistics vehicle to … Read More → "MEMS Lidar for Driverless Vehicles Takes Another Big Step"
